Modern Web

In this episode, Rob Ocel discusses the present state and future goals of the Angular ecosystem with Mark Thompson, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, and Angular Core Team member. They talk about Angular’s most recent accomplishments, like the advancements afforded by Angular v12, and how the Angular team responds to RFCs and other forms of community feedback. Mark also explains how the community should interpret roadmaps, and the spectrum of stages at which an in-development project might be, and how developers and non-developers can contribute to the ecosystem. Rob and Mark also talk about the relationship between third-party solutions and the Angular team’s attitude toward potentially rolling these solutions into the core framework.   Guest: Mark Thompson (@marktechson) - Developer Relations Engineer, Google    Host: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Labs   This episode is sponsored by HARMAN & This Dot Labs.

In this episode, Rob sits down with Naoki Ogishi, Director of Product Management at HARMAN International to discuss the present and future of Automotive App Development. They discuss the challenges of developing software in automobiles, how Android Automotive OS is making cross-vehicle app development feasible, how the HARMAN Ignite Store developer portal and template libraries make it easier to build and distribute your automotive apps, and where the future of in-vehicle development might take us.   Guest: Naoki Ogishi - Director of Product Management, HARMAN International   Host: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Labs   This episode is sponsored by HARMAN & This Dot Labs.

In this episode, Rob speaks with Mike Nikles and Geoffrey Huntley of Gitpod about doing software development in configurable environments hosted in the cloud. They discuss the challenges that teams face supporting bespoke development environment across myriad devices, how tools like Gitpod solve for these challenges, how these types of cloud environments can be built and extended with plug-ins, and what the future of cloud-based development (and cloud-based remote computing) might hold!   Guests: Mike Nikles (@mikenikles) - Developer Advocate, Gitpod Geoffrey Huntley (@GeoffreyHuntley) - Developer Advocate, Gitpod   Host: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Labs   This episode is sponsored by HARMAN & This Dot Labs.

In this episode of Modern Web, Dustin Goodman and Jae Anne Bach Hardie sit down with Paige Niedringhaus and Mark Erikson to talk about modernizing react applications! They discuss Paige's new course on Newline and some of the stories and experiences that inspired it and hear about Mark & Paige's stories of implementing these practices in their recent projects.   Guests: Paige Niedringhaus (@pniedri)- Co-host of React Round-up Podcast, Staff Software Engineer at blues wireless, & Author of the "Modernizing React Apps" Course Mark Erikson (@acemarke) - Maintainer of Redux & Blogger   Hosts: Dustin Goodman (@dustinsgoodman) - Engineering Manager, This Dot Labs Jae Anne Bach Hardie (@dulcedejae) - Architect, This Dot Labs   This episode is sponsored by HARMAN & This Dot Labs.

In this episode, Rob Ocel (@robocell) sits down with Adam Bradley (@adamdbradley), Director of Technology at builder.io, co-creator of Ionic, and creator of Stencil! They talk about the web performance challenges related to loading and using third party scripts (such as those for Google Analytics), and they discuss Partytown, a new, lightweight library created by Adam and his team to move these scripts off the blocking path and into web workers. They discuss how Partytown accomplishes this feat, what performance benefits this type of approach offers, and why this new library has the whole development community buzzing with excitement!   Guest: Adam Bradley (@adamdbradley) - Director of Technology, Builder.io & QwikDev, Co-creator of Ionic, & Creator of Stencil   Host: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Labs   This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Rob Ocel sits down with Brendan Falk, co-founder and CEO at Fig, a terminal extension that provides CLI integration and autocomplete support. They discuss the state of the terminal today, how Fig enhances the terminal, how to build tools for both power users and inexperienced users alike, the vision for integrating the command-line with user interface, and more!   Guest: Brendan Falk (@BrendanFalk) - Co-Founder & CEO, Fig    Host: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Labs   This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Tracy Lee (@ladyleet (she/her) and Nacho Vazquez (@nacho_vazquez14) speak with Nader Dabit (@dabit3) of Edge and Node about web3 and how to get started! We touch on topics that are hot in the blockchain ecosystem that you definitely want to be aware of if you're blockchain-curious.   Topics covered: What does the next few years of blockchain development look like and why you should start looking at layer 2 blockchains The future of Eth 2 - proof of stake vs proof of work Why you should watch out for the Solana blockchain What is Gitpod and why should you care? Lowering the barrier to entry to new developers exploring blockchain development Learning about The Graph and Edge and Node   Guest: Nader Dabit (@dabit3) - Developer Relations, Edge and Node    Hosts: Tracy Lee (@ladyleet (she/her) -  CEO, This Dot Labs  Nacho Vazquez (@nacho_vazquez14) - Software Engineer, This Dot Labs    This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Lindsay and Michael talk about Michael's perspective on building communities, and how to stay curious and growing as a developer. They talk about how Michael and Lindsay both started in tech by taking small bits of time to grow and learn, and how that has served them in their tech careers. Michael also talks about his time on React Podcast, and what brought him to hosting the show. They end by discussing curiosity, and how specifically to stay curious in life and in a development career.    Guest: Michael Chan (@chantastic) - Software Engineer at Chromatic, Creator of lunch.dev    Host: Lindsay Wardell (@lindsaykwardell) - Software Engineer at This Dot, co-host of Views on Vue    This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Tracy Lee sits down with Stephen Fluin from Chainlink to talk about blockchain and why JavaScript developers should start learning about it today. We go over the difference between blockchain and cryptocurrency, and how the two work together. We also explore use cases for developers and interesting decentralized applications one can build today. Stephen also shares with us the idea of smart contracts, and how they play into our ecosystem of development. This episode will also teach you what programming language to use, and why and how it is for you as a JS developer to get going with an IDE today. We also talk through resources JS developers have to learn technologies like solidity and explore the different blockchains you might want to consider as you dip your toe in.    Host: Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - CEO, This Dot Labs    Guest: Stephen Fluin (@stephenfluin) - Developers Relations at Chainlink Labs   This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Lindsay talks with Luke Diebold, web developer and creator of QuasarCast.com, about Quasar, the amazingly flexible framework for building applications using Vue. They talk about how Luke got into programming from his interest in music, and how he got started using Quasar for personal and professional projects. They discuss what Quasar is, and discuss where it fits into the web ecosystem. They explore some of the basics of using Quasar, including its CLI and the ability to make web, mobile, and desktop apps. They wrap up the discussion talking about how Quasar is one of the first major frameworks to support Vue 3, and what that looks like from the framework.   Guest: Luke Diebold (@LukeDiebold) - Web Developer, creator of QuasarCast.com    Host: Lindsay Wardell (@lindsaykwardell) - Software Engineer at This Dot, co-host of Views on Vue    This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this podcast Tracy Lee and Ben Lesh, core team members of RxJS, talk about the big changes RxJS 7.0 ++ has brought to the community! Listen to this podcast to hear updates about upcoming deprecations, new performance improvements, typings fixes, improved multicasting, top level exports, the new configurable retry, and what's coming for RxJS 8. If you're interested in following along with ongoing updates to RxJS, the changelog is here: https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#features-2 Follow the roadmap for RxJS 7 to 8! Issue #6367 on github https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/issues/6367 Full updates for RxJS 7.0 from RxJS Asia: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-LU7YE3NWw8jHeAgdmLu4CBfG7osCx6MsSIeFs16k60/edit#slide=id.g389cbad6b8_0_36 For documentation, check out rxjs.dev. _______ Featuring:  Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - CEO, This Dot Labs  Ben Lesh (@benlesh) - Software Engineer at Citadel & Author of RxJS   This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Lindsay Wardell talks with Richard Feldman about Elm, the delightful functional programming language for creating web applications. They discuss how Richard got into programming and his first experiences with Elm, then dive into some of the key features of Elm such as no runtime exceptions and its helpful compiler. They then discuss where Elm is going, and some of the great community tools that exist in the Elm ecosystem.   Guest: Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman) - Head of Technology at NoRedInk and author of Elm In Action    Host: Lindsay Wardell (@lindsaykwardell) - Software Engineer at This Dot, co-host of Views on Vue    This episode is sponsored by Progress KendoReact & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Misko Hevery is featured in an interview with Tracy Lee on leaving Angular, and his new project Builder. He talks about a new way to think about frameworks that our community should start embracing, as well as, why he's so excited about Builder, the space, and what he will be doing next.   Host: Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - CEO, This Dot Labs    Guest: Misko Hevery (@mhevery) - CTO, Builder.io & Creator of Angular   This episode is sponsored by This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Lindsay Wardell talks with Stephanie Eckles about her work with Modern CSS and accessibility. They discuss how Stephanie got into programming, and what drew her to start writing ModernCSS.dev, an excellent resource for learning the latest supported concepts in CSS. They also talk about some of the features in CSS that developers may not be aware of, as well as, some upcoming features that aren't released yet. Stephanie also talks about accessibility, and how CSS can be impacting your site's users' ability to use it. We end talking about Stephanie's upcoming workshop, and how she uses 11ty to build her sites and projects.   Host: Lindsay Wardell (@lindsaykwardell) - Software Engineer at This Dot, co-host of Views on Vue   Guest: Stephanie Eckles (@5t3ph) - Author of ModernCSS.dev &  Egghead Instructor    This episode is sponsored by Dexecure & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Rob Ocel chats with Gleb Bhamutov, a Distinguished Engineer at Cypress IO. They discuss Gleb's PhD, his prolific catalog of OSS libraries, his dream job, and how he works to scale his impact on the world at large. They also talk about the promise and value of end-to-end (E2E) testing using Cypress, and why the traditional testing pyramid might be underselling the power and importance of E2E testing. They also explore some interesting current and upcoming features of Cypress, and highlight some lesser known alternative uses of Cypress that illustrate it's flexibility.   Guest: Gleb Bhamutov (@bahmutov) - JavaScript ninja, image processing expert, software quality fanatic, & Distinguished Engineer at Cypress IO    Host: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Labs   This episode is sponsored by Progress KendoReact & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Rob Ocel, Matthew Pagan, and Luis Aviles sit down with Justin Fagnani, staff software engineer at Google and Lit core team lead, to discuss web components and the recent announcement of Lit 2.0. They discuss the new major features of Lit, such as server-side rendering support and reactive controllers, new documentation, the playground site including the TypeScript support, the community around web components, the future of Polymer and LitElement, and how to build applications from Lit and work around the challenges of Shadow DOM.   Guests: Justin Fagnani (@justinfagnani) - Staff Software Engineer, Google & Lit core team lead   Hosts: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Luis Aviles (@luixaviles) - Software Engineer, This Dot Matthew Pagan (@Mastapegs) - Software Engineer, This Dot   This episode is sponsored by Dexecure & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Lindsay Wardell and Hunter Miller talk side projects with Shawn Wang. We discuss the projects they do on the side, and what kind of side projects they enjoy working on. Shawn also talks about his book, "The Coding Career Handbook", and how it started as a side project as well. We also talk about the importance of writing your own blog posts, and sharing your experience and learning in public to help both yourself and others, rather than blogging for numbers. We wrap up with a discussion on being a part-time creator, and finding a company that supports their employees and match what you're looking to do.   Guests: Shawn Wang (@swyx) - Developer & Author of "The Coding Career Handbook"   Hosts: Hunter Miller (@hmillerdev) - Senior Software Engineer, This Dot Lindsay Wardell (@lindsaykwardell) - Software Engineer, This Dot & co-host of Views on Vue    This episode is sponsored by the Media Developers community & This Dot Labs. 

The Ionic core team has been on fire the past year! With the release of Ionic Vue and Ionic React, the traction of Ionic adoption has been explosive in the past 12 months. In this episode, Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) interviews Adam Bradley and Liam DeBeasi, core team members of the Ionic Framework, on what Ionic is, how it works under the hood, and why and when to choose Ionic as a technology of choice. We also discuss what it means to be using web components under the hood with Stencil.js and how that helps enable the Ionic team to provide a more stable framework. Liam and Adam even slip us a few hints as to what to expect with Ionic V6 and how you can get more involved in their community.   Guests: Adam Bradley (@adamdbradley) - Director of Open Source Development, Ionic Liam DeBeasi (@LiamDeBeasi) - Software Engineer, Ionic   Host: Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - CEO, This Dot Labs    This episode is sponsored by Progress KendoReact & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) interviews Debbie O'Brien (@deb_obrien) about bit.dev, a new open source tool for helping developer share components. We learn how to use Bit to manage component architecture, think in components, and how this can help you a build more scalable, reusable codebase and work across teams.   Guest: Debbie O'Brien (@deb_obrien) - Head Developer Advocate, Bit   Host: Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) - CEO, This Dot Labs    This episode is sponsored by Dexecure & This Dot Labs. 

In this episode, Rob Ocel discusses the recent release of Tailwind's Just-In-Time (JIT) CSS compiler with Hunter Miller and Lindsay Wardell. They discuss the new features the JIT compiler provides, as well as, the performance boost developers can expect on their own projects. They also talk about the benefits of utility CSS compared to other methods, and how Tailwind can be used to build out many types of design systems. They also explore other utility CSS frameworks, including Windi CSS, and discuss the future of utility CSS in the development world.   Hosts: Rob Ocel (@robocell) - Architect, This Dot Hunter Miller (@hmillerdev) - Senior Software Engineer, This Dot Lindsay Wardell (@lindsaykwardell) - Software Engineer, This Dot & co-host of Views on Vue    Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O_3X7InOw8 https://tailwindcss.nuxtjs.org/ https://windicss.org/    This episode is sponsored by the Media Developers community & This Dot Labs.